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Ink Spotter: Heather H

Look, I understand that it’s easy to mess up idioms. We grow up hearing people say certain things and sometimes come to learn their meanings without a second thought about their origins or even what exactly it is we’re hearing. I myself used the phrase “just deserts” for years without realizing that it had nothing to do with after-dinner confections.

That said, I think I would have made absolutely certain that I understood the phrase before getting “Just Desserts” inked across my shoulder blades above a picture of a banana split.

This person? Not so much. There isn’t much to be done here short of laser surgery, but here are my suggestions anyway:

1. Add an apostrophe to make it “To each ‘is own.” Start speaking with a Cockney accent.

2. Change it to “Peninsula de Sao JacinTo beaches pwn!” Start telling people you’re from Aveiro, Portugal. That accent might be harder to master, though.

3. Get a bunch of your friends to get tattoos with the same mistake. Convince people that “To each is own” is actually correct and they’re the ones that have been wrong this whole time. You’ll be spending a lot of time reverting edits that other people make to your Wiktionary page, but it’ll be worth it when everyone finally realizes that mama didn’t raze no fool, right?

Source: Chicago Tribune

We were about to write this off as a silly spelling error, similar to some we’ve seen around here before. But when our own Stephen came across a second “Chi-tonw” tattoo, and then another, and another, we knew there had to be something more to this story.

Turns out that it DID start as a silly error. But in a show of solidarity with the ass that made it, a bunch people that support the right to be unforgivably bad at one’s job went and got tattoos with the same misspelling. Because, you know, admitting when you’re wrong is for pansies. Real men get their friends to make the same horrible mistake in a sad attempt to legitimize the error and intimidate the victim. USA! USA!

Forgive us if this is old news to you, but we here are Ugliest Tattoos are just now recovering from an infection suffered a while back when trying to give ourselves an “Oakladn” tattoo. It was for a friend.

Source: Tressugar.com

When you get your last name, gang affiliation, or band’s name tattooed on your back, the subtext is always “I’m awesome” anyway, so I can hardly fault someone for cutting through the bullshit and getting right to the point.

I can, however, fault them for spelling it wrong. This guy managed to get the one gothic-lettering back tattoo that shouts loud and clear, “I AM IN NO WAY AWESOME.” I mean, I can’t beleive it.

What? No, that’s how you spell it. “Beleive.” I even remember the rule: “I before E, except in beleive.” Right? Right. Otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten this:

Submitted by: Todd B.